Talisker 1975 The Bottlers 25 Year Old

Like the First Cask brand, The Bottlers is an independent label produced by a well-connected wine distributor. The bottles, produced by Raeburn Fine Wines in Edinburgh, are labelled simplistically and near-identically to each other, a no-frills approach that highlights their focus on cask selection first. The Bottlers releases have developed a cult following because of this, and old and new releases alike are increasingly sought after.

This whisky was aged for 25 years in single refill sherry hogshead #3727 before being bottled at cask strength in August 2011.

For a long time, Talisker was the sole distillery on Scotland’s iconic Isle of Skye. Renowned for the quality of its output, the distillery has rarely changed hands, joining DCL (now Diageo) back in 1916. Despite this, releases were not the most common. An 8 year old was bottled officially and Gordon & MacPhail produced what are now classic and sought after vintage bottlings under official license from the distillery. When a 10 year old expression became a founding pillar of United Distillers’ Classic Malts range, the popularity of the distillery exploded, and it is now one of the most revered and exported in Scotland. As such, independent bottlings like this are scarce, and particularly sought after when they appear.